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Re: LDS and Niantic Games
Quite a few in the Mid-Atlantic have gone through at least the approved description edits - first ten results shown.
Re: New Forum, New Adventures, Same Explorer Community - Discussion
all i want is an RSS option so that I can just have a forum section, specifically news, piped to my RSS reader
Re: Really stupid question re Niantic ID
Your Niantic ID username doesn't have to be the same as your game username. If you want to create a different Niantic ID username, you can do so, just as long as you are using one of the linked accounts to the games when creating your Niantic ID account. I'd check out the information about creating a Niantic ID account and see the examples they provided in the images, especially the 3rd image (I'll include the link for that example, too):
https://d2duuy9yo5pldo.cloudfront.net/niantic/b04051f7-aa33-4ca5-bd69-edd7dc8fc2f9.png
Keep in mind that Niantic ID can only be changed once, so choose wisely!
Re: Exclusive New Pokémon GO Feature Comes to Explorers - Routes Creation - Discussion
I can rate any that I've previously walked either created by me or someone else in the badge section.
I've also been asked to rate any I walked today even though I've walked and rated them before.
Re: Why can’t an area for activity not be approved?
I would accept a rock formation on a trail that serves as a significant marker. Does it show up on a trail map? Does it have a local name or story that goes along with it? Is there lore around the rock? If any of these things are true, there is more than likely going to be mention of it somewhere on the internet that can be included in a submission. Otherwise, it's probably just a rock that the submitter likes (even if it is a big rock).
Re: Why can’t an area for activity not be approved?
No but a rock that size if you stress its not really movable, can be a physical anchor for a signless park but if one was going to try and make the rock the physical anchor, it would need to be clearly stated in the supporting and perhaps the description that it was going to be a physical anchor for the park and that the park lacked a more proper signage
Another possibility, that might work is to try and nominate it as a portion of the trail. It would be a long shot, but IMO should be workable because the guidelines for trails such as trail markers is little open ended and says "Etc" with the idea being that on a trail existence of POIs such as generic trail markers encourage both exploration and exercise for people to walk down the trail. I really don't see any difference in purpose between a prominent rock and a plain wooden sign with a green triangle on it. But I tend to be very lenient on trails so you'd have to get lucky and get a large number of trail encouragers like me.
On a different note, I see a soccer goal and picnic table in distance those might be easier to get accepted then a rock.
Re: Trailmarkers - warning received
i wonder what the reason for that one is. Those are not stickers so can’t be seen as temporary.
if they go for ‘mass produced’ again, then they can remove everything. I mean, churches for example, they are every where. I think my small town already has at least 3. They maybe look different but all build with bricks. A lot of buildings are build with bricks.
joking of course, but the mass produced thing is also the really vague.
Re: Trailmarkers - warning received
This action by Niantic and the Wayfarer team is rather troubling, especially given that communications with the community will become obsolete with forums discontinuing in the near future. I personally have over 32k reviews, over 700 portals (not including from my linked Pokemon Go account), and actively look to add and enhance the community by submitting quality submissions through the Canada and the US (soon to be Europe). I recently submitted trail portals in a local state park, that 97% of them passed. The trail markers submitted entailed the park, and encourages exploration & exercise (which, meet criteria). I submitted in the location because Red portals are fairly active, ultimately creating a Machina farm. I opened Pokemon Go, and created about 4 gyms that I noticed. I personally would ride my mountain bike, throughout the trails on a weekly basis, and when I went there today, over 40 portals were removed, including the older portals submitted ten years ago. I personally find the clarification of trail guidelines convoluted and contradictory, and the removal of portals with little, to no notification, interesting at best, I recently completed the survey before this incident, and my answers would be significantly different if I took the survey today.
Re: Are trailmarkers no longer good wayspots?
Generic street signs are ineligible - trails are promoted as a great place to exercise by Niantic.
Re: Removal of inaccessible gyms
In Ingress you can report a wayspot if you can just see it on screen.
That being said, if it's just behind a gate in an area where only some people have access (like in a theme park, in a gated community, on a business property, etc.), that is not against the rules and they're considered perfectly valid. Feel free to share where they are and why you think they might be invalid.